A Man for All Seasons is the story of Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, and his struggle between acting on his conscience and his duty to the crown, when King Henry VIII breaks from the Catholic Church so he can procure a divorce from his wife in order to marry Anne Boleyn.

You probably wouldn’t expect librarians to use music to make a point about breaking library rules, but that is exactly what librarians Anne Duncan, Cathy Connelly, and Stephanie McMurry did. They made a brilliant music video, starring in their own remake of the Beastie Boy’s Sabotage video. Check out these awesome librarians, and remember to keep your voices down in the library and don’t forget to check out that book.

What do Ivan Doig, Stephen King and Jhumpa Lahiri have in common? All have new books out this fall and you can find them in the Law Library’s recreational reading collection. When you need to take a break from reading casebooks, you’ll find a rotating selection of new novels and non-fiction works just under the stairs in the Library.

Bloomberg Law has a wealth of transactional resources, including a number of drafting tools and guides. Sign up for a password using your .edu email, and you’ll gain access to all of the tools Bloomberg provides. Click on the tab for Transactional Resources to find a searchable database of over 200,000 publicly available agreements, browse the annotated checklists and timelines, or use the numerous transactional law treatises.

The Law Library does not have an in-house copy center, so for students looking to photocopy, scan, or fax documents we’ve created a guide to help you locate these services on campus. The guide documents where you can find these resources as well as the contact information and any fees charged. We’ve also included the information for the nearest off-campus copy center in case you can’t make it to one of the on-campus providers.

Celebrate the Freedom to Read during Banned Books Week 2013. For over 30 years libraries, publishers, booksellers, journalists, teachers and readers have been coming together during Banned Book Week to explore the issues and controversies around book challenges and book banning. Our new exhibit on the second floor highlights the top 5 most challenged books from 2012 and their authors’ reactions to making the list.

On September 21, 1921, movie studios started adding morality clauses to film actors’ contracts. This was in response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. The comedian had been arrested for manslaughter of 25 year old Virginia Rappé, a starlet that he had been accused of assaulting at a party. Arbuckle was eventually acquitted, although his career as a comedian was over. He was able to work under a pseudonym as a director until he died of a heart attack in 1934.

A morality clause allows termination of the contract if an employee engages in morally offensive conduct or does something to damage the reputation of the employer. Morals clauses are common in both entertainment and sports contracts.

Paths of Glory is the film adaptation of Humphrey Cobb’s novel directed by Stanley Kubrick. French General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) sends his troupes on a suicide mission, seeking to sacrifice his men to boost his own reputation. When several of his men refuse to leave the trenches after most of their comrades are killed, he decides to make an example of them – blaming them for the failure of the mission. In an anti-war statement, this film brilliantly depicts military politics, and recreates actual events that took place during World War I.

It is apple harvest time in Washington and everyone knows that the apple is the official state fruit. Did you ever wonder why? It’s because there is a law making it so. In fact, there is an entire chapter of the Revised Code of Washington devoted to adopting certain items as the “official” whatever: tree, fish, song, dance, folk song and endemic mammal are a few of the recognized adoptees. The chapter is RCW 1.20. It even specifies that the proceeds from the official state song, “Washington My Home” shall be placed in the state’s general fund. That should eliminate any budget shortfalls. According to Wikipedia’s list of best-selling songs, the Legislature should have gone with “White Christmas.”

Do you have a right to privacy when storing your data on a cloud server or when sending emails via gmail? And which companies are fighting to protect their users from government intrusions? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a report “Who Has Your Back?” and lists some of the major companies and what they’re doing to protect your data.